Hearing and Speech

Hearing

Hearing noun - Range of hearing.

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Speech and hearing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speech" instead a noun "Hearing".

Nearby Words: hear, hearer

Speech noun - A usually formal discourse delivered to an audience.

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Hearing and speech are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hearing" instead a noun "Speech".

Nearby Word: speechless

human	human hearing	human speech
good	good hearing	good speech
normal	normal hearing	normal speech
public	public hearing	public speech
Other adjectives: alien, polite, powerful, actual, great, bad, political, final, limited, last, said.

So imagine the surprise in finding a newsreel of Patton giving a speech and hearing a high, almost squeaky tenor with an almost British-sounding accent...

Source: Vocal Dissonance
Department of Child Disservices: After Jinjiimaa departs to undergo surgery that will restore her hearing and speech, the local Commnunist authorities assumed that she has abandoned her family and seek to take the girl away to an orphanage.

Source: Film / My Beautiful Jinjiimaa
Lampshaded when Phantom Limb is about to begin a speech about how Not So Different he and Brock are, but Brock cuts him off, saying he knows that speech well enough from hearing it every time.

Source: Western Animation / The Venture Bros.

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